We are always adding new movie scriptss and encourage members and visitors to contact us and submit a script to our directory. The movie scripts we provide on this site are free to use for teaching and education purposes. View our disclaimer here. Proper credit is given to authors and writers where applicable. Please CLICK HERE To Check Out My Top 5 Online Scriptwriting Courses. Here I’ve tried to pluck a script from every genre of film. If you are writing a script on a specific genre, it’s helpful to read through other scripts in that genre to see how the story was structured and how the characters were bought to life.
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Below are all the film scripts currently in the database.
12 and Holding by Anthony S. Cipriano
Download | 100 pages | 132 Kb | Digital PDF Format April 6, 2004 Unspecified Draft IMDB
12 Years a Slave by John Ridley
2014 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Download | 142 pages | 751 Kb | Digital PDF Format January 24, 2013 Final Shooting Script IMDB | Amazon
17 Again by Jason Filardi
Download | 102 pages | 248 Kb | Digital PDF Format October 5, 2007 Rewrite IMDB
2012 by Roland Emmerich & Harald Kloser
Download | 130 pages | 217 Kb | Digital PDF Format February 19, 2008 Second Draft Polish IMDB | Amazon
30 Days of Night by Steve Niles and Stuart Beattie and Brian Nelson
Download | 101 pages | 248 Kb | Digital PDF Format July 22, 2006 Production Polish IMDB | Amazon
3:10 to Yuma by Michael Brandt & Derek Haas
Download | 121 pages | 322 Kb | Digital PDF Format January 23, 2007 Tan Revised Final Shooting Script IMDB | Amazon
42 by Brian Helgeland
Download | 150 pages | 2436 Kb | Digital PDF Format July 9, 2012 Double Blue Revisions IMDB | Amazon
(500) Days of Summer by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
Download | 120 pages | 215 Kb | Digital PDF Format Unknown 2006 First Draft IMDB | Amazon
9 by Pamela Pettler
Download | 78 pages | 138 Kb | Digital PDF Format Undated Unspecified Draft IMDB | Amazon
Above the Law by Steven Pressfield & Ronald Shusett & Andrew Davis
Download | 136 pages | 205 Kb | Digital PDF Format April 29, 1987 Final Draft Blue Revisions IMDB
Absolute Power by William Goldman
Download | 129 pages | 216 Kb | Digital PDF Format May 1996 Unspecified Draft IMDB
Adaptation. by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman
Download | 130 pages | 336 Kb | Digital PDF Format November 21, 2000 Revised Draft IMDB
The Addams Family by Caroline Thompson & Larry Wilson
Download | 156 pages | 252 Kb | Digital PDF Format April 11, 1991 Shooting Script IMDB
Adventureland by Greg Mottola
Download | 123 pages | 327 Kb | Digital PDF Format August 5, 2007 Revised Draft IMDB | Amazon
After.Life by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Download | 102 pages | 168 Kb | Digital PDF Format October 7, 2008 Revised Draft IMDB
Airplane! by Jim Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker
Download | 121 pages | 498 Kb | Digital PDF Format June 15, 1979 Revised Shooting Script IMDB | Amazon
Ali by Stephen J. Rivele & Christopher Wilkinson and Eric Roth & Michael Mann
Download | 146 pages | 335 Kb | Digital PDF Format Undated Unspecified Draft IMDB | Amazon
Aliens by James Cameron
Download | 118 pages | 156 Kb | Digital PDF Format May 28, 1985 First Draft IMDB
All Is Lost by J.C. Chandor
Download | 31 pages | 86 Kb | Digital PDF Format February 28, 2011 Unspecified Draft IMDB | Amazon
Amelia by Ronald Bass
Download | 128 pages | 222 Kb | Digital PDF Format September 14, 2007 Unspecified Draft IMDB
American Beauty by Alan Ball
2000 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Download | 105 pages | 182 Kb | Digital PDF Format Undated Final Draft IMDB | Amazon
American Gangster by Steven Zaillian
Download | 128 pages | 405 Kb | Digital PDF Format July 26, 2006 Final Shooting Script IMDB
American Hustle by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
Download | 151 pages | 296 Kb | Digital PDF Format Undated Unspecified Draft IMDB | Amazon
American Splendor by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
Download | 100 pages | 164 Kb | Digital PDF Format Undated Shooting Script IMDB
The American by Rowan Joffe
Download | 129 pages | 392 Kb | Digital PDF Format Undated Unspecified Draft IMDB | Amazon ![]()
Amour by Michael Haneke
Download | 68 pages | 139 Kb | Digital PDF Format Undated Unspecified Draft IMDB | Amazon
Analyze That by Peter Steinfeld & Harold Ramis & Peter Tolan
Download | 121 pages | 293 Kb | Digital PDF Format June 2002 Unspecified Draft IMDB
Analyze This by Peter Tolan and Harold Ramis and Kenneth Lonergan
Download | 138 pages | 276 Kb | Digital PDF Format July 1998 Unspecified Draft IMDB
Angel Eyes by Gerald DiPego
Download | 130 pages | 229 Kb | Digital PDF Format October 1999 Seventh Draft Polish IMDB
Angels & Demons by Akiva Goldsman
Download | 134 pages | 601 Kb | Digital PDF Format April 9, 2008 Draft White Revisions IMDB | Amazon
Animal Kingdom by David Michôd
Download | 114 pages | 265 Kb | Digital PDF Format Undated Green Revisions IMDB | Amazon
Anna Karenina by Tom Stoppard
Download | 198 pages | 464 Kb | Digital PDF Format Undated Unspecified Draft IMDB | Amazon
Annie Hall by Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman
1978 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Download | 152 pages | 157 Kb | Digital PDF Format 1977 Shooting Script IMDB | Amazon
The Apartment by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond
1961 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Download | 156 pages | 295 Kb | Digital PDF Format Undated Unspecified Draft IMDB
Arbitrage by Nicholas Jarecki
Download | 102 pages | 214 Kb | Digital PDF Format April 17, 2011 Full Goldenrod Script IMDB | Amazon
Argo by Chris Terrio
2013 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Download | 122 pages | 2776 Kb | Digital PDF Format 2011 Final Shooting Script IMDB | Amazon
Armored by James V. Simpson
Download | 101 pages | 210 Kb | Digital PDF Format September 26, 2006 Unspecified Draft IMDB
Avatar by James Cameron
Download | 152 pages | 420 Kb | Digital PDF Format Undated Unspecified Draft IMDB
Awakenings by Steven Zaillian
Download | 141 pages | 941 Kb | Digital PDF Format December 15, 1989 Green Revisions IMDB
Away from Her by Sarah Polley
Download | 121 pages | 238 Kb | Digital PDF Format March 27, 2006 Double Yellow Revisions IMDB
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If you want to write movie screenplays, you need to read movie screenplays – it’s just as essential as batting practice for professional baseball players. Reading in general is important, whether it’s novels, comics, or the backs of cereal boxes—even if you’re not paying attention, your brain is remembering hundreds if not thousands of subtle connections between language and storytelling.
Reading screenplays provides an added benefit—allowing you and your brain to see proper formatting in action. It’s also vital for aspiring screenwriters to see the difference between how scenes play out on the page and how they play out on the screen. Finally, while proper screenwriting adheres to a very rigid format, it’s extremely useful to see how various writers work within those rules and even use them to their advantage. Even if you know exactly what you’re seeing, your brain is actively learning and your subconscious is absorbing more and stronger information with every script you read.
By reading screenplay after screenplay, you will get a sense of how you can write your own.
Here, then, are ten websites that allow you to download professional movie scripts. Start clicking and start reading today—if not for your own sake, at least do it for your brain’s.
1. IMSDB – Internet Movie Screenplay Database
IMDB has proven a valuable resource for researching movie crews, casts, and trivia. IMSDB is just as useful for those looking for screenplays of all kinds and genres.
2. Go Into the Story
Go Into the Story is the official blog for The Blacklist, the screenwriting community famous for its annual top ten list of unproduced scripts. One useful feature of Go Into the Story is its bank of downloadable movie scripts.
3. Drew’s Script-o-Rama
The titular Drew has been sharing scripts with curious readers and writers for almost two decades now, and has a vast library from which to choose from. A great benefit of Script-O-Rama is that it holds several drafts of certain movies, an invaluable resource for those who want to see how a Hollywood film evolves in the writing process.
4. Simply Scripts
Simply Scripts has a wide, diverse library that also includes plays and non-English screenplays. It’s also constantly updated, providing scripts to current movies such as Interstellar and Foxcatcher.
5. AwesomeFilm
AwesomeFilm is another resource with dozens of scripts you can download with a single click, alphabetized for easy searching. If you’re looking for a screenplay to read, this site is, well, awesome.
6. Screenplays For You
Screenplays For You is a clean, smooth website with hundreds of scripts. You’re more than likely to find something from the genre you need—its library boasts everything from low-key award-winning dramas like Sideways to action blockbusters like Avatar.
7. The Daily Script
The Daily Script offers a ton of screenplays in a very simple, easy-to-navigate layout. It keeps things homey for the typical screenwriter, even using Courier New as its primary font.
8. The Screenplay Database
The Screenplay Database is another useful resource with a large choice of scripts to choose from. If you’re interested in a certain type of film, the website also allows you to search its library by genre, to better allow you to window shop and find something you didn’t even know you were looking for.
9. The Script Lab
The Script Lab comes in handy if you’re looking for more recent screenplays. Its front page divides its library into the three most recent years of releases, so if there’s something from 2014 you’d like, for instance Birdman or Boyhood, this is the website for you.
10. Movie Scripts and Screenplays![]()
You’ve got to love the straightforward title. Movie Scripts and Screenplays gives you exactly what it says, with a long list of manuscripts that you can also directly find with its search function.
All writers know that reading great material is an essential part of honing and building your craft. But if you’re ready to take the next step in developing your skills as a screenwriter with the most hands-on, intensive training in the world, check out NYFA’s screenwriting programs. Looking for a long-distance way to take your writing to the next level? Check out NYFA’s online screenwriting program options.
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